Grocery store worker accused of embezzling $275,000

A Kroger employee is accused of embezzling $275,000 from a Cypress-area store.

Dana Williams, 29, has been charged with felony theft for a scheme prosecutors say started in March 2016, two years after she began working at the Barker Cypress Road store.

Sometimes Williams took cash out of the safe and put it in a hoodie pocket, court documents allege. Other times, she manipulated the self-checkout machines to account for money she stashed away, according to a sworn affidavit.

The scheme came to light after Williams missed work for a sick day and another employee was called in to do bookkeeping.

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